5G: A great opportunity for Telcos to enter the $135B video games industry

Content providers have been historically disintermediating telcos who were left as a connectivity commodity. 5G poses a challenge and a chance for the telco industry. The challenge is to find alluring use cases for their customers to upgrade to 5G. The chance is to take advantage of the huge opportunity the videogame industry represents to monetize their 5G investments via cloud gaming.

The US and Korean telcos have understood this urgency and are already in talks with PlayGiga to research and eventually launch cloud gaming services in their territories… Will the rest telcos catch this train?

On the 26th March, PlayGiga participated in the deeply productive Designing the Edge kickoff led by the AT&T Foundry in Santa Clara. This event ushered in new gaming experiences to showcase the potential of 5G and Edge Computing. A lot of work awaits us now, at...

Much like music and TV in the past, gaming is now moving swiftly to the cloud as 5G promises to create new uses cases and enable gaming anytime, anywhere, on any screen. This requires addressing tuning and optimization of network components to maximize...

Much like music and movies in the past, gaming is now moving swiftly to the cloud as 5G promises to create new game experiences and enables the old dream of gaming anytime, anywhere, on any screen. But even more so than with 4G, when it comes to getting consumers to...

"Wow, I'm super impressed with PlayGiga's cloud gaming service! Here's Lara Croft in action over 4G, indoors, in the most network-congested spot in the whole of Spain. Already available in several European markets, no 5G required! 😮" (George Jijiashvili, Senior...

"5G therefore has the potential to turn telcos into another significant new gaming channel and independent cloud gaming players can partner with these players and enable this huge opportunity. In fact, several telcos like Verizon are already testing new cloud gaming...

"Today when we´re deploying cloud gaming, we´re typically doing it over fiber, cable networks or even ADSL networks. 5G adds something very important to the game which is that you can play triple-A gaming on the move, wherever you are. Telcos around the world are...

"PlayGiga has been working with a number of telecom operators who want to explore how 5G behaves with an extremely stressful case for the technology such as streaming of a virtual reality game". "We´re showing a VR game streamed to the local device, which in this case...

PlayGiga´s groundbreaking cloud gaming VR tech starred in the MWC2019 by its own merits, but also by the stars that came to have a look at it, like Víctor Claver, the great former NBA and current Barça basketball player who came to visit us in the Vodafone stand....

PlayGiga has recently announced the expansion of its next generation game streaming service in the United States after successful launches across Spain, Italy, Argentina, Chile and Qatar. As Telcos begin to deploy and commercialize their 5G network services, high...

PlayGiga has announced the expansion of its gaming streaming service in the United States by offering a streaming service to Telcos based on the new 5G wireless technology. As part of its expansion efforts, PlayGiga has partnered with Intel to offer an alternative...

Cloud Gaming offers a number of advantages over the traditional download model where games are installed and processed locally in PCs, video consoles or mobile devices. According to Steam surveys, 53% of Steam users do not have PCs with the local processing power to...